From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 22 5:52:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F16937B422 for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 05:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 93893 invoked by uid 1000); 22 May 2001 12:53:02 -0000 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:53:02 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: ccf@master.ndi.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: technical comparison Message-ID: <20010522145302.R88529@mail.webmonster.de> Mail-Followup-To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Jordan Hubbard , ccf@master.ndi.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010521153705K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010521153705K.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:37:05PM -0700 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard(jkh@osd.bsdi.com)@2001.05.21 15:37:05 +0000: > > c) A filesystem that will be fast in light of tens of thousands of > > files in a single directory (maybe even hundreds of thousands) > > I think we can more than hold our own with UFS + soft updates. This > is another area where you need to get hard numbers from the Linux > folks. I think your assumption that "Linux handles this effectively" > is flawed and I'd like to see hard numbers which prove otherwise; > you should demand no less. i think, based on the number of files per directory, that they reference reiserfs as theri filesystem -- which i would not use for mission critical storage. on toasters, it's fast as hell, but for real data storage i would stick to ufs+softupdates since this turned out to be the most stable solution i had my hands on in the last years. linux evangelists keep telling the public that reiserfs actually would be a production quality fs and this is simply not true, IMVHO. /k -- > An open mind, like an open mouth, does have a purpose: and that is, to > close it upon something solid. Otherwise, it could end up like a city > sewer, rejecting nothing. --G. K. Chesterton KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.net/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 BF46 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message